this is true and yet, it's false

oldhollywood:

Hedy Lamarr in Ekstase (1933, dir. Gustav Machaty)

In Ekstase, a 19-year-old Hedy Lamarr plays a young woman who finds out on her honeymoon that her husband is both impotent and cold. She decides to rectify the situation by finding herself a lover.

Ekstase was highly controversial in its time due to two scenes - the first was a swimming scene, in which Lamarr displayed full nudity. The other scene, pictured above, featured Lamarr & her lover kissing on a bed before his head is seen to drop out of the bottom of the frame. Much writhing ensues, making Ekstase the first non-pornographic film to depict sexual intercourse & the female orgasm onscreen (as captured through Lamarr’s facial expressions).

The scene can be seen here, courtesy of hedy-lamarr.org.

“To be made of glass
When two suns are shining
The battle becomes blinding
To be made of glass
But we ride tonight, tonight, tonight, we ride”

All the confusion of my life… has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I’d like to be.

- Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi on 8½

1963

Shinnin Kawaguchi

Kaishi hen

S.XVIII Anatomy Book